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I would say that using your own clone() method is probably a good idea. Just make so clone() makes so that that the correct properties are made unique or reset so that you can differentiate between objects.

I believe strongly in books as a main source of training because unlike tutorials on the internet, they are required to have a certain standard of quality in order to get published. Some books are better, some are worse, and some are incredible. I'd like this to become some sort of reference on what books to get or not. So post your experiences with books on programming or web design, I suppose. Some books I've read: Learning PHP 5 (David Sklar/June 2004/O'Reilly Media) tl;dr: Pretty good- When it was relevant. This is the book I learned the basics of PHP from; It also teaches some basic SQL (It assumes prior knowledge of very basic HTML/CSS). It covers the basics: basic syntax, form handling, databases, XML, string manipulation and a few extra things here and there. The thing is, PHP has changed quite a bit since this book was released in 2004, and if there isn't an updated version I would recommend a generic introductory PHP 6 book. It is easy to understand though. Good, but not exceptionally good. PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice 2nd Edition (Matt Zandstra/December 2007/Apress) tl;dr: A third edition updated to reflect the changes in PHP 6 would be the be all and end all guide to object-oriented programming in PHP. Already fits that role for PHP 5, in my opinion. This is an extremely good book. It's not the kind that you read once and you're done with, there's no way you can read this book in less than two months it's so packed with information. It starts off with the basics of object oriented design (What are objects? How do you make them in PHP?) and how you actually make them, then goes on into inheritance. The rest of the book (About 300 pages) is dedicated to design patterns and the practical stuff that prevents you from banging your head on the wall. It explains all kinds of patterns in detail and shows practical usage and code examples for each one. You can read this book even if you don't have a clue what objects are (I'm living proof), I would recommend this book to anyone who is thinking of seriously doing PHP. It doesn't cover some of the very newest syntactical features of PHP like anonymous functions and namespaces (At least completely), but that is understandable as the book was written in 2006-2007 and those features were released in 2009.

Oh, sorry. Fix'd. :razz:

She never stated anything. She just said to discuss about it, we all know that it simply isn't true that Wikipedia is perfect and free from vandalism. E: Gender fail.

Piracy is not actually against the rules of the forum, using the forum as a means of piracy/acquiring information on how to pirate or advertising/posting information on how to pirate is however. The difference of course is that what Tip.it's rules say is actually enforceable.

Nah, it was a malfunction in a codec, as is explained in the video description. Well between the two of you then, you lick the platter clean like it. :razz: I had to choose where I cropped carefully or the whole thing would be flashing and it's annoying enough, I think. Yeah anyway back to the topic. What about a bad sig contest like I suggested? We can obviously invite people from the outside community to show us how much they suck.

I listened to Gorillaz D-sides and Demon Dayz on Spotify today. Well, not all of D-sides, but like half the first disc. :P Maybe I'll finish listening later, stupid ads.

I screwed them up, partly as an experiment to see how long it would take people to go wtf. :P My sig is six cropped frames of that video. But you have to admit, it looks pretty cool amirite?

Get help man :lol: I'm also gonna read the LOTR books next time I get to a library... Which is probably like when that book "C programming: A modern approach" goes off hold. Spent like 1½-2 hours clearing nearly a meter of snow off our garage roof today. I estimate that we need to remove ~75% of the snow off our roof today or get water damage when the temperature hovers around zero on the weekend.

Now that I actually took the time to read the first post (:|), maybe we should have a contest for the worst signature. I mean, you can make something bad, but then you can make something that is well and truly bad that makes you want to scratch your eyeballs out.

I have to say I really like this. The colors work really well, I'm just not a big fan of that kind of generic composition with the leaves...

http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html

I don't like having loads of addons, but it's having addons that I need available that makes me use Firefox. I have a total of 9 addons, and with the exception of a couple of them, taking away any of them would disrupt my day-to-day browser usage.

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There's gonna be a huge public hanging staged in General Discussion. But first there's gonna be a huge banner contest (RuneScapers only) to commemorate the event, and the one voted as the best (The one by the user with the most friends) will be set as your signature for life.

It wouldn't even involve hacking, probably just gaining administrative access and killing a process. If that wouldn't do it, then the program(s) used is well and truly spyware. It would require hacking, schools wont just give you administrative access. Pff, you call that "hacking"? Also, this could be made a bit more difficult by the fact that the laptops in question are apparently Macbooks. Yeah, anyway, a judge ordered the school to stop this, so it all turned out OK and everything. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/23/2030207/Federal-Judge-Orders-Schools-To-Stop-Laptop-Spying

I knew that someone would finally say that, because to be entirely honest it's true. That and what others said about fragmenting the discussion further don't justify the creation of a new forum. :|

Not only does Linux happen to be the standard for servers and supercomputers, but Linux is like public school in the way that everyone contributes for the benefit of everyone, and Windows' development is privately funded. That analogy doesn't really work. I'm not really sure which you think is better, but the quality of education in different types (Public or private) varies so much from country to country that you can't really say that; Finland's education is among the best in the world, and is almost exclusively public. Cost is almost always proportional to quality, especially in schools. Less cost, less teachers, less material, less electives... Yes but if the school cost less.. but had less quality then most people wouldn't pick that school and it would go out of business. Yes, exactly. You didn't really read my quote did you? If a majority of schools were private, the cost would not go down so much so as to maintain quality. This is exactly why private schools aren't as popular, the quality must remain constant so the cost must remain constant. I have no idea what you mean by that second sentence. Who is "They"? What do you mean by "The money", how is it attached to the child? Look, moral of the story: Don't post at 5:00am, OK?

Not only does Linux happen to be the standard for servers and supercomputers, but Linux is like public school in the way that everyone contributes for the benefit of everyone, and Windows' development is privately funded. That analogy doesn't really work. I'm not really sure which you think is better, but the quality of education in different types (Public or private) varies so much from country to country that you can't really say that; Finland's education is among the best in the world, and is almost exclusively public. Cost is almost always proportional to quality, especially in schools. Less cost, less teachers, less material, less electives... And in addition to that, Finland has high taxes, but free schooling up to University level and healthcare. Taxes would indeed be stealing if "taking your money" is where it ended.

^Multitasking is not an impossibility now, neither has it been in the recent past. Since tablets and computers in general have been able to multitask graphically for roughly 25 years, I think that it's safe to blame Apple for that.

^ Heh, I used Firefox like since it first went stable. :P (2004ish?) My dad showed me it (Makes me wonder how he knew about it then, he wasn't a web developer) and I started using it. Or maybe it was my uncle, I don't know.

It wouldn't even involve hacking, probably just gaining administrative access and killing a process. If that wouldn't do it, then the program(s) used is well and truly spyware.

I think they accused the student of using drugs in his home. I heard from a friend of a friend that they accused him of popping prescription drugs in his bedroom, but in actuality they were Mike n Ikes. Yeah, according to Slashdot that's what was going on. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/22/1814248/School-Spying-Scandal-Gets-Even-More-Bizarre

Firefox, because I need Firebug and Stylish. Absolutely essential for web design, makes web design an absolute breeze and a pleasure to do. Chrome rocks too, but it doesn't have Firebug (Its Firebug equivalent just doesn't do it) or a decent Adblocker that I've seen yet. It's fast and efficient, but it'll have to get those addons before I use it on a daily basis.

The solution is painfully simple- Nuke them from orbit. Put Linux on them. Man, I wish I went to that school. The money I could make off Ubuntu installs. :lol: